The French School, Aberdeen Grammar School, Skene Street, Aberdeen

The French School, located at Aberdeen Grammar School on Skene Street, is a former Westfield School built in the mid-19th century and remodelled by A Marshall Mackenzie in 1898, with late 20th-century additions and alterations. This single-storey and attic building features an L-plan layout and is constructed of finely finished tooled coursed granite ashlar, with harled sections and finely finished margins on the northeast elevation. It has a base course, chamfered reveals, predominantly pointed-arched openings, and a decorative eaves cornice.

The southwest entrance elevation is asymmetrical with five bays. An advanced gabled bay on the outer right contains a central 4-light traceried window with a hoodmould and decorative label stops. Above, a tooled tablet in the gablehead reads "School for Poor Girls ...", topped with a stone fleur-de-lys. To the left, there is a gabled porch with a hoodmould over the doorway, which has decorative label stops. A modern addition obscures the ground floor of three recessed bays to the left. The attic features a gableted window that breaks the eaves, with a tooled shield in the gablehead, flanked by flat-roofed bipartite rectangular dormers.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical with four bays, each containing a traceried window. The northeast elevation is near-symmetrical with five bays, featuring a flat-arched doorway in the penultimate bay to the left, which has a stepped hoodmould and a panelled timber door, flanked by two bipartite windows. The left and right gabled bays have decoratively traceried 4-light windows, and there is an oculus in the gablehead of the right bay, topped with a fleur-de-lys finial. A single-storey flat-roofed link with a central window connects to a modern block on the outer right.

The northwest elevation is mostly obscured by a modern addition. The building has a variety of timber-framed windows and a grey slate roof with a lead ridge. An octagonal louvred timber ventilator with a fish-scale slate roof and weathervane sits at the ridge, with evenly spaced louvred gableted ventilators breaking the pitch. The stone skews are coped, and the gablehead stacks, ridge stacks, and stacks breaking the pitch are corniced with circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron. The interior was not seen in 2000.